Coin-freed apparatus for delivering sweets or other articles.



No. 697,l48. Patent ed Apr. 8, I902.

E. A. JEFFREYS.

COIN FREED APPARATUS FOR DELIVERING SW EETS OR OTHER ARTICLES.

(Application filed Nov. 25, 1901.)

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No. 697,l48.

E. A. JEFFREYS.

Patented Apr. 8, I902.

ODIN FREED APPARATUS FOR DELIVERING SWEETS OR OTHER ARTICLES.

(Applicatibn filed Nov. 25, 1901.)

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EDlVARD AUGUSTUS JEFFREYS, OF MOSELEY, ENGLAND.

I COIN-FREED APPARATUS FOR DELIVERING SWEETS OR OTHER ARTICLES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 697,148, dated April 8, 1902.

Application filed November 25, 1901. Serial No. 83,571. (No model.)

To ctZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWARD AUGUSTUS JEFFREYS, gentleman, a subject of His Majesty the King of Great Britain and Ireland and of the British dominions beyond the seas, Emperor of India, residing at Thistlewood, Coppice Road, Moseley, in the city of Birmingham, England, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Coin-Freed Apparatus for Delivering Sweets or other Small Articles, of which the followingis a specification.

This invention consists of the herein-described improvements in coin-freed apparatus for delivering sweets or other small articles in exchange for a coin. My said apparatusis so arranged that after it has been released by the insertion of a coin the quantity of sweets or other small articles delivered depends to some extent upon the skill of the person operating the apparatus, thus making the operation of the apparatus more interesting, and consequently of greater commercial value, than when, as is usual, a fixed amount is delivered in exchange for the coin.

I will describe my invention by referring to the accompanying drawings, on which- Figure 1 is a sectional side elevation of a coin-freed apparatus constructed according to this invention. Fig. 2 is a front sectional elevation of the upper part of the same. Fig. 3 is a plan of the same, partly in section. Figs. land 5 are sectional side elevations of the said apparatus online X X of Fig. 3. Figs. 6 and 6* show separately parts of the operating mechanism, and Fig. 7 is a front sectional elevation of a modified form of my invention.

The same letters of reference indicate the same or corresponding parts in all the figures.

I will first describe the arrangement of my invention illustrated by Figs. 1 to 6, both inclusive. In carrying out this arrangement of my invention I provide a receptacle A, of any convenient shape, but preferably of the hemispherical-bowl shape shown on my drawings, this receptacle containing the sweets B or other small articles of various sizes and values, which according to the skill of the person operating the machine will be delivered in exchange for the coin by which the apparatusis freed. The top of the receptacle is closed, preferably, by a plate 0' and glass panes (3 0 so that the person operating the machine can see the contents. Projecting through the top of the receptacle is the handle d of the spoon D, which handle d works in a kind of ball-and-socket joint in the top part C'--that is to say, the handle d of the spoon D passes and slides through a sphere E, which turns in a bearing c in the plate 0', so that the spoon can be rocked about in various directions and also move up and down. The sphereE is carried in the forked part f of the shaft F,which is inclosed in the receptacle A and turns in bearings a a and the shaft F projects at one end into the chamber G, which contains the coin-operated mechanism, arranged as hereinafter described. At the front of the receptacle A or other convenient part of the same there is an outlet H, with a downwardly-projecting spout, into which one or more of the sweets or other articles in the receptacle can by the person operating the spoon from the outside be spooned up into the inclined outlet I'I, so as to fall out to the operator. The number of times the spoon D can be worked about to deliver the quantity of sweets or other small articles is controlled and limited by mechanism which I will now describe. Fixed on the shaft F there is an arm I, carrying a click or pawl 11, which engages with the teeth of a ratchet-wheel J, turning loosely on the shaft F, this ratchetwheel J being fixed to a cam K, (shown sepa rately by Fig. 6*,) so that when the spoon D is moved about the shaft F is rocked and the click 2" turns the ratchet-wheel J and cam K through one or more teeth in the direction indicated by the arrow in Fig. 4. Resting on the periphery of the cam K is one arm of a two-armed locking-lever L, which turns on a stationary fulcrum-pin Z, and is made with a tooth Z at one end, and is also weighted at its end by the weight Z so as to engage with the notch 71; of the cam K. The other end Z of the two-armed locking-lever L carries a small tipping bucket M, into which the coin N falls from the coin-slit O, the Weight Z on the other end of the locking-lever being so proportioned as to depress the lever and cause its toothed end I to engage with the notch 70' of the cam K when there is no coin in the tipping bucket M; but when the coin is dropped into the tipping bucket M that end of the lever is depressed and the toothed end Z of the lever L is lifted'and the cam K released. The axis m of the tipping bucket M is made with a crank m at one end, of which, as hereinafter described, engages with a stop m fixed on the side of the chamber G, so that as the lever L is depressed the crank m comes in contact with the stop m so as to tip up the tipping bucket, as shown in Fig. 5, and tip the coin out before the cam has completed its revolution, as hereinafter described. The light spring m connecting the arm m of the tipping bucket M to the hook m on the lever L, brings the tipping bucket up to its normal position. (Represented in Fig. 4.)

The apparatus above in part described acts as follows: When the coin is inserted in the coin-slit 0, it falls down the incline 0 and then is directed by the lower inclined plate 0 into the tipping bucket M and depresses the locking-lever L, so that the toothed end Z is raised above the notch or tooth 7c of the cam, and the cam K is now free to be turned by rocking and moving the spoon D about by its handle (1, so as to spoon up the sweets or other small articles from the receptacle A and tip them over into the outlet H, from which they fall out to the operator. As aforesaid, every time the spoon D is rocked about the shaft F is also rocked and turns the ratchet-wheel J through one or more teeth and simultaneously turning the cam K with it until a short time before the cam K has made one revolution the raised part on the periphery of the cam K lifts the toothed end Z of the locking-lever L so far as to depress the bucket to the position represented in Fig. 5, so that as the cranked end m of the spindle m of the tipping bucket strikes against the stop m the tipping bucket is turned and tips the coin out into the bottom of the chamber G. The coin Nis shown falling from the tipping bucket in Fig. 5. The end Z of the locking-lever L is now the heavier, and when the projection 70' has passed the toothed end Z of the locking-lever the latter in following the shape of the cam falls and the tipping bucket is raised to its normal position (represented in Fig. 4) by its spring, and the toothed end Z of the locking-lever fallsinto the notch 7a of the cam and locks the same and the spoon D and prevents the latter from being rocked until the lockinglever L has again been released by the insertion of another coin N in the coin-slit 0. Thus when a coin has been inserted in the coin-slit O and has fallen into the tipping bucket M the spoon can be moved up and down and to and fro, so that the operator can spoon outa considerable number of sweets or other small articles in exchange for the coin. The spring-band P, which passes around the periphery of the boss of the cam K and is pulled downwardly by the spring 10, sets up a certain amount of friction on the boss of the cam K and prevents the same from turnin g backward with the pawl t" when the same is making its back stroke.

Instead of the spoon D being operated from the top of the case A, as in the arrangement above described with reference to Figs. 1 to 6, both inclusive, the spoon D may be arranged to be operated from one side of the case-as shown, for instance, by Fig. 7--so as to spoon out the sweets or other small articles, as above described. In this case the spoon D does not have to slide up and down, but is fixed to the rocking shaft Q, which has a handle g at one end, by which the shaft Q can be moved to and fro and rocked backward and forward, and this shaft Q passes into the shaft F, which in this case is made hollow and has the cranked slotted part f fixed to it, in the slot of which the spoon D engages, so that as the spoon D is rocked to and fro by the handle q the shaft F is also rocked and the cam K turned, as above described. The tubular shaft F is slotted at f to engage with a peg g fixed on the shaft Q, so that the latter and the shaft F will turn together.

The receptacle A is by preference, although not necessarily, made with a hopper or store R at the back (provided with a locked lid r) for containing the store of sweets or other small articles, which gradually work out through an opening 1' at the bottom to make up for those which have been delivered from the recepta cle A. The bottom a of this store or hopper R is made inclined to the proper angle, so that the sweets or other small articles in the hopper R will gradually slide down into the receptacle A, as aforesaid.

The accompanying drawings illustrate what I consider to be the best ways of carrying my invention into practice; but it is to be under stood that my invention is not limited to the precise details shown, as it will be evident to any practical man that these can be Varied in some respects without departing from the nature of my invention.

It is to be understood that by the word spoon I intend to include any instrument by which the sweets or other small articles can be spooned up into the outlet of the receptacle.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. Ina coin-freed article-delivery machine, the combination with a receptacle for holding a plurality of small articles, of a spoon for dipping up and removing a quantity of such articles, and coin-controlled mechanism for governing the action of said spoon, and means whereby universal movement may be imparted to said spoon for removing articles from any part of the receptacle, substantially as described.

2. In a coin-freed article-delivery machine, governing the motion of said shaft, substanthe combination with a receptacle for holdtially as described. :0 ing a plurality of small articles in loose form, In witness whereof I have hereunto set my a cover for said receptacle, a horizontal ophand in presence of two witnesses.

5 crating-shaft, a spoon within the receptacle EDWARD AUGUSTUS JEFFREYS.

having a handle extending through the cover, Witnesses: A a rocking connection between the spoon-han- CHARLES BOSWOR'IH KETTEY,

die and shaft, and coin-controlled means for THOMAS JOHN ROWE. 

